The moment I stepped inside the City
the first thing that came into view
were the horns of men.
Instinctively my hand felt my head.
...
THE VISIT
I set foot into this city
where the wind has ceased to be.
I couldn't utter even a word
...
Horns
The moment I stepped inside the City
the first thing that came into view
were the horns of men.
Instinctively my hand felt my head.
Nothing pricked
With the heart being fully aware that
the Onida Ad is a figment of imagination
Even in the wildest of my dreams I have never seen
real men sporting horns.
But now, forcing me to believe that
the city-bred would indeed be born
with horns
I come across men with horns
all too often.
Thinking that at least my friend from the village
who has migrated to the town
would be free of horns,
when I knocked at the doors
he opened it
waving his horns gleefully.
I touched the horn.
Indeed it was real.
Once again I felt my head.
And, I could feel something pricking.
Before the Sun could retire for the day
the horns had grown on my head too.
I became terror-struck.
I began to cut them but
they kept on sprouting.
The horns that I had removed
during day-time,
when I woke up after a night's sleep
came to occupy their usual place.
And, I too have begun to
roam around with horns,
searching for the Man
minus the malignant growth.